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atari 2600 · 08.11.2006, 08:24 AM

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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
who can love the stooges & ignore the doors??

but i tell you this:
no eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.
-texas radio & the big beat

besides the whole Dionysian connection, there's the Danny Sugarman involvement with both bands (the Stooges & The Doors are the two bands I mean for those of you with poor reading comprehension).

people who actually prefer the bullshit "alternative" & "underground" music of today & rag on some of the greatest bands ever have got some sort of brain damage. yes, i realize that youth are deliberately rebellious to the point of being irrationally confrontational, but shit, there's simply no comparison between the quality of the music. One finds out rather quickly that these people full of derision for the music of The Doors, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, etc. aren't in it for music; they care much more about image than music.

I graduated high school in 1986. Thus, I grew up when they were still a relatively plentiful amount of really good bands. One can type messages until their wrist locks up & never convince me that the bands of the '90s or the '00s can even hold a candle. I spent my adult life in the '90s & the '00s, but being a music lover, I know the difference between wankers & rockers intrinsically. Now, I am writing this in a very generalized manner, it's not absolutely true in every single case, & there will always be a select few musical artists that do have something to offer, so please refrain from the instinct to pigeohnole me.
"Good music" is not completely dead yet, but it certainly has been in the death throes for a very long time.

What we find today is that time & time again (& one witnesses this phenomenon in society & in these pages all the time) is that the musicians of today willingly engage in rhetoric & spin to bad-mouth the bands of yesteryear to convince themselves & the recording-buying public that their largely talentless & soulless products are actually relevant & that people should indeed even care about listening to or buying their music. It seems everyone feels gypped that there is no scene & so they invent one from within a fantasy world to compensate for the horror of it all.

08.11.2006, 08:24 AM	#220
atari 2600 invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 8,213	Quote: Originally Posted by !@#$%! who can love the stooges & ignore the doors?? but i tell you this: no eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn. -texas radio & the big beat besides the whole Dionysian connection, there's the Danny Sugarman involvement with both bands (the Stooges & The Doors are the two bands I mean for those of you with poor reading comprehension). people who actually prefer the bullshit "alternative" & "underground" music of today & rag on some of the greatest bands ever have got some sort of brain damage. yes, i realize that youth are deliberately rebellious to the point of being irrationally confrontational, but shit, there's simply no comparison between the quality of the music. One finds out rather quickly that these people full of derision for the music of The Doors, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, etc. aren't in it for music; they care much more about image than music. I graduated high school in 1986. Thus, I grew up when they were still a relatively plentiful amount of really good bands. One can type messages until their wrist locks up & never convince me that the bands of the '90s or the '00s can even hold a candle. I spent my adult life in the '90s & the '00s, but being a music lover, I know the difference between wankers & rockers intrinsically. Now, I am writing this in a very generalized manner, it's not absolutely true in every single case, & there will always be a select few musical artists that do have something to offer, so please refrain from the instinct to pigeohnole me. "Good music" is not completely dead yet, but it certainly has been in the death throes for a very long time. What we find today is that time & time again (& one witnesses this phenomenon in society & in these pages all the time) is that the musicians of today willingly engage in rhetoric & spin to bad-mouth the bands of yesteryear to convince themselves & the recording-buying public that their largely talentless & soulless products are actually relevant & that people should indeed even care about listening to or buying their music. It seems everyone feels gypped that there is no scene & so they invent one from within a fantasy world to compensate for the horror of it all.
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